Steven Anderson

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2009-11-11T06:06:00.000-08:00

So, there's all these "Social networking" websites supposedly dedicated to connecting people across the world or across the street. Sadly enough the latter is FAR more often true than the former, and most of folk just use it as a way of having a captive audience to their "drama" and ego boosting about their various societal accomplishments.

That said, I am afraid I am a Facebook member, why? I don't really know outside of my wife telling me I had to. I do find it kinda convenient at times, that I can simply check up on my friends "Status" and see if they are busy, wanting to hang out, drunk, angry, just broke up with their "BFF" or whatever is goin' on with them. That's another thing, laziness has become epidemic since the advent of Social Networking and text messaging, I mean what the hell is TBH IRL, or BFF4L, spell a word you lazy moron.

Moving on, Facebook and Twitter is where it's at like AIM was it in the mid '90s. Myspace was the father of it all, but that as always in technology and internet means nothing at all. I do find myself on my iPhone at 3am looking at a recap of what my friends have done with themselves, and I do see some good in it, but I'm afraid they are just furtherments in the ways of digital loss of connection. Now I'm not a 75 year with his cane yelling about you damn kids, and I believe that cell phones and social networking has allowed people to connect and more often than may have before, simply from ease of access, but everything has consequences. Everything.

Going to the Movies

2009-10-18T10:47:00.000-07:00

I love movies, just about every genre and theme if the writing and acting is on point, I can get behind it. I watch movies just about everyday, with my wife, friends, or both most often. There are the action-rific blood fests my wife isn't a big fan of, that I watch alone, but for the most part always with the peoples. My favorite genres if I had to pick a couple I'd say; Comedy and Action. Now comedy is the obvious one for obvious reasons, you laugh, sometimes so hard you cry. Action though, I gotta have good solid bone breaking, joint tearing, blood packet exploding action, movies like Equilibrium, King Arthur, Ong Bak, and Braveheart are the movies that get the blood pumping and honestly sometimes causes my body to hurt just watching.

Now, in order to enjoy the movie I need three things: 1st and foremost above all the movie must have "real" emotion and passion. If it's a comedy I need to see genuine laughter, if it's action and the star gets his/her ear ripped off, I need them to scream like it just happened in order for me to really connect. 2nd I need writing, good writing, Joss Whedon, JJ Abrams, Kevin Smith, or George Lucas (The idiot). If the movie makes me question even something small in my life, or my world I consider the writer to have done his job. Not even to say that it has to be something so indepth and fortuitus that it's a comedy and it makes me question religion and morality (Dogma) but I will say that if it can, and I can still laugh everyone wins. 3rd I need actors that "are" their characters. Invested and committed to their craft and their individual roles regardless of the theory behind it. Perfect example and if you don't know him, find his work Nathan Fillion (Firefly, Serenity, Slither, White Noise 2, Castle).

Everyone enjoys well almost everyone to be PC, enjoys seeing Optimus Prime in IMax, where his head is taller than you and your friend if he stood on your shoulders, but I gotta be honest my favorite places to watch movies are the smaller theatres, with less people, and more of my friends. Although I tend to have as much or more fun watching movies with my friends at one of our respective homes because we can pause, make fun of, or just stop the movie altogether if it's that bad (Jenifer). There's no better experience in movie watching when you turn the movie off, and you and your people start quoting the most memorable moments instantly, and often for many moons thereafter.

2009-09-14T11:13:00.000-07:00

Blog officially created on 09-14-09 at 2:14pm